e.e. cummings, from “[i like my body when it is with your body]” (excerpt from & [And]), Complete Poems: 1904-1962
[Text ID: “i like my body when it is with your
body. It is so quite a new thing.
Muscles better and nerves more.
i like your body. i like what it does,
i like its hows. i like to feel the spine
of your body and its bones,and the trembling
-firm-smooth ness and which i will
again and again and again
kiss, i like kissing this and that of you,
i like,slowly stroking the,shocking fuzz
of your electric fur,and what-is-it comes
over parting flesh … And eyes big love-crumbs,
and possibly i like the thrill
of under me you so quite new”
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—Michael Dickman, “Killing Flies”
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I skipped meals.
Trimmed fat.
Dreamed of another body, revised
again & again like the rough draft of a coast.
I was always a mouthful away from unbecoming.
— torrin a. greathouse, from “All I Ever Wanted to Be Was Nothing at All,” Wound from the Mouth of a Wound
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Fat Art, Thin Art, ‘Performative (San Francisco)’ by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
[ID: What I would be when I grew up, / I never wondered that (maybe I knew that); / I wondered other things: if I’d be / sane. Loved.]
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Rainer Maria Rilke, Journal of My Other Self
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Franz Kafka, The Diaries of Franz Kafka, 1910-1923
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I am a collection of dismantled almosts.
— Anne Sexton, "Anne Sexton: A Self-Portrait in Letters"
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—Ocean Vuong, from Notebook Fragments
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“I would rather seek pardon there than ask permission first.”
Danielle Dutton, Margaret the First
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Fat Art, Thin Art, ‘Performative (San Francisco)’ by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
[ID: What I would be when I grew up, / I never wondered that (maybe I knew that); / I wondered other things: if I’d be / sane. Loved.]
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regarding the röttgen pietà, elle emerson
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― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life
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“When the language was imperfect or nonexistent, people still spoke, still looked for others like them. Connecting in new ways, loving in infinite ways, all as beautiful as the next. All because someone reached out and explained themselves, and someone else understood.”
— Laura Darling (via makingqueerhistory)
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heirlooms
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“I barely knew I had skin before I met you.”
— Sarah Waters, The Paying Guests, 2014
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when kafka said “all the love in the world is useless when there is total lack of understanding” and when richard siken said “if you love me, you don’t love me in a way I understand.”
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